河北沧州第一中学高二上学期第一次月考英语试题含答案

沧州一中高二年级第一次月考
2020.10.12 英语试题
命题人：于颖
（满分：150分，测试时间：120分钟）
注意事项：
1．答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、考生号等填写在答题卡和试卷指定位置上。

2．回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。

如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。

回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上，写在本试卷上无效。

3．考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。

第一部分听力（共两节，满分30分）
做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。

录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。

第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）
听下面5段对话。

每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。

听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。

每段对话仅读一遍。

1. What color is the bag?
A. Green.
B. Red.
C. Blue.
2. What does the man want to do?
A. Place an order.
B. Apply for a new job.
C. Ask for after-sales service.
3. Where are the speakers?
A. In a library.
B. In a bookshop.
C. In a classroom.
4. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?
A. Husband and wife.
B. Boss and secretary.
C. Customer and waitress.
5. When was the Olympics held in 1964?
A. In August.
B. In September.
C. In October.
第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）听下面5段对话或独白。

每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。

听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。

每段对话或独白读两遍。

听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。

6. Who helped the woman learn some German?
A. Her neighbor.
B. Her father.
C. Her mother.
7. Why did the man go to the United States?
A. For work.
B. For study.
C. For sightseeing.
听第7段材料，回答第8至第10三个小题。

8. What did the speakers wait for just now?
A. A taxi.
B. A Mobike.
C. A bus.
9. What does the woman say about the bike sharing?
A. It is convenient.
B. It helps save money.
C. It can reduce air pollution.
10. Where are the speakers going?
A. The supermarket.
B. Their home.
C. Their school.
听第8段材料，回答第11至第13三个小题。

11. How old is the man probably?
A. 20 years old.
B. 30 years old.
C. 40 years old.
12. What is the man’s plan for next year?
A. Getting retired.
B. Going traveling.
C. Making documentaries.
13. What is the woman doing?
A. Making an invitation.
B. Making an interview.
C. Making a schedule.
听第9段材料，回答第14至第17四个小题。

14. What did Charlie Watson do?
A. He created a website.
B. He had his own soccer club.
C. He earned a billion dollars at 16.
15. Why does Anna Philipova impress the woman?
A. She put out a fire by herself.
B. She saved her two brothers from a fire.
C. She climbed the highest mountain in the Andes.
16. Whom will the woman probably vote for?
A. Charlie Watson.
B. Felipe Flores.
C. Malik Monroe.
17. How did Malik Monroe raise money?
A. By teaching in schools.
B. By organizing concerts.
C. By working in hospitals.
听第10段材料，回答第18至第20三个小题。

18. What does the speaker usually do?
A. She cares for wildlife.
B. She trains animals for fun.
C. She does research on wildlife.
19. What is Buddy?
A. A lion.
B. A giraffe.
C. An elephant.
20. What is the speaker pleased with?
A. She gets help from wildlife researchers.
B. The animals get along well with people.
C. More and more visitors come to the farm.
第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

A
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Groups:
Group A: kids aged 8 - 11 years old Words: 300 - 400
Group B: kids aged 12 - 15 years old Words: 500 - 600
The essay may be about:
☆ My hometown
☆ The city that I once visited
☆ My favorite city in the world
☆ The city where I lived as an exchange student
☆ A perfect city in my mind: If I was King/Queen…
Tip: The essay has to be written in English, but may include words in a foreign language.
Other important information:
● The competition is free for students to enter.
● The competition is open to students all over the world.
● The essays must be finished by the students themselves.
● The essays must have been received by 1 November 2020.
● The essays can only be received through e-mail.
● The essays must not have been published elsewhere, or have won a prize in any other competition.
● The winning essays will be published on on 15 November 2020.
● The winners will receive prizes. Prizes must be accepted within 60 days since 15 November 2020.
Good luck and enjoy the journey!
21. What can you write in your essay?
A. A great dream.
B. An unforgettable trip.
C. A place you imagine.
D. A city you want to change.
22. When should you hand in your essay?
A. Before 1 November 2020.
B. Before 15 November 2020.
C. Before 1 January 2021.
D. Before 15 January 2021.
23. What can winners of the writing competition do?
A. Take a trip for free.
B. See their essays online.
C. Be a writer of the website.
D. Accept their prizes in three months.
B
I keep remembering odd things: the way she loved daffodils, jokes she told at the dinner table, the look in her eyes when she talked about my future. I knew about college before I'd never heard of high school; I was Mom’s second chance at the degree she never had.
Her parents pushed her too much, too hard, and she always wished she hadn’t let the pressure defeat her. She dropped out of college after one term for marriage and a secretarial job. While she never regretted marrying my father, she always regretted giving up her dream of becoming an accountant. She was determined her eldest daughter would never miss an opportunity.
One of the most extremely special times of my life was Christmas in my second school year, when I played Tiny Tim in a local community theater production of "A Christmas Carol（圣诞颂歌）." Mom delighted in my endless rehearsal (排练) stories and spent hours helping me work out ways of disguising my long hair. There’s a line in the show: "And it was always said of him that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge.” Change the pronouns and that sentence describes Mom perfectly.
She was the one person I could talk to about anything. She was right about so much, so often ---- much more than I gave her credit for at the time.
I never imagined she wouldn’t be here now. I never thought cancer could strike so quickly, could kill
someone so strong and determined in only a year. She's the one person I couldn’t imagine living without; now, since last January, I've had to. Suddenly, I have no one to talk to about meaningless little things, no one whose advice I trust completely to help me with decisions. When I come home from school, I come home to an empty house, troubled by memories of the year she spent here dying. I remember the disastrous Thanksgiving when she was feeling terrible, and our wonderful last Christmas Eve together.
What I feel cheated of is the future we’ll never have.
24. What can be learned about the author’s mother in Paragraph 2?
A. She gave in to her parents.
B. She had an obedient（顺从的）daughter.
C. She fell in love with her husband in college.
D. She wished her kids to follow her example.
25. What made the Christmas in the author’s second school year special?
A. Her rehearsal stories.
B. Her mother's company.
C. Her favorite line from the show.
D. Her mother's skills in doing hair.
26. What does the author think of her mother?
A. Clever and passionate.
B. Caring and humorous.
C. Supportive and reliable.
D. Talented and hard-working.
27. What is the author’s purpose of writing the passage?
A. To show her mother's great sadness. B To tell anecdotes（轶事）about her mother.
C To talk about the cruelty of the disease.
D To share fond memories of her mother.
C
Mercury(水星) is the closest planet to the sun. It is a planet slightly larger than the Earth’s
moon. It is covered in craters. Some craters have ice in them, even though the planet is hot. Sunlight never touches some parts because of the planet’s special position. Without air, there are great temperature differences between the coldest and hottest parts. Mercury days are so long that there are big differences between temperatures on the daylight side and the night side.
Mercury was created billions of years ago, when big rocks ran into each other. After these accidents, the planet was frequently visited by meteorites (流星) for several hundred million years. There were also many volcanic eruptions. As the planet cooled, the thin, rocky outside shell reduced in diameter(直径) by about 3 kilometers.
The Caloris Basin is one of the largest craters on Mercury. This big crater is 1, 300 kilometers wide and was formed when a large rock, about 100 kilometers across, knocked into the surface. Beethoven, another large crater, is 643 kilometers across.
The cliffs on Mercury are up to 2 kilometers high and hundreds of kilometers long. The cliffs were formed when the thin surface fell apart, as volcanic activity slowed down and Mercury became cooler.
One Mercury day lasts about 59 Earth days. Mercury takes about 88 Earth days around the sun to have a complete year, instead of the 365 days that we have on the Earth. Mercury speeds around the sun so that there are three Mercury days every two Mercury years! Mercury has a strange relationship with the Earth. Every 117 days, when Mercury is closest to the Earth, it always has the same side facing us.
Mariner 10 is the only spacecraft to visit Mercury. It made three visits to Mercury in the 1970s, taking photos of many cliffs and craters. Although the first three visits answered many questions, they have raised others.
28. What is the surface of Mercury like?
A. It’s generally flat.
B. It’s hot everywhere.
C. It’s bright everywhere.
D. It’s cold in some parts.
29. Why did Mercury’s diameter get smaller?
A. A drop in temperature changed its size.
B. A great many meteorites ran into it.
C. It got out of shape as time passed.
D. Lots of surface rocks fell off.
30. What do we know about Mercury?
A. One Mercury day lasts about 88 Earth days.
B. It turns around the sun faster than the Earth.
C. Six Mercury days are two Mercury years.
D. It has more cliffs than large craters.
31. What happened after Mariner 10’s three visits to Mercury?
A. Another spacecraft visited Mercury.
B. New cliffs and craters were formed.
C. New signs of volcanic activity appeared.
D. Lots of new puzzles needed to be solved.
D
At one point in June last year, Zeng Jinpeng was more than 10,000 yuan in debt to a smart phone app. The 23-year-old Shanghai citizen pays for his online purchases of food, clothes, and travel with Huabei, a virtual credit card that’s part of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s spreading stable of e-commerce. His spending often used to go beyond his only source of income: the 8,000-yuan monthly allowance from his parents. He tried to repay the debt in installments (分期),even borrowing from Jiebei, another Alibaba-owned credit service, but eventually his mother and father had to help him out
Zeng's story is typical of members of China’s Generation Z. These young consumers, born from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s, have little income and therefore actually no credit history. Yet they have easy access to credit from an assortment of banks, financial-tech companies, and peer-to-peer(P2P)lenders(网络借贷平台), plus other channels that are unregulated. The spending habits of the young in particular are causing concern. In some cases the younger generation is being tempted to overconsume via credit secured through technology. Unsecured consumer lending has expanded 20% a year in China since 2008. The amount
of consumer finance available through the Internet will more than double, to 19 trillion yuan, by 2021, from7.
8 trillion yuan last year. Official data showed that almost 70% of China’ s 50 million P2P borrowers were younger than 40.
As for Zeng, he's trying to be a little more frugal, even though he is now trying to earn a little by himself. " I deliberately set the credit limit at a lower level,” he says, "so that hopefully I can better match my income with spending.”
Regulators( 监管部门) last year launched a breakdown on peer-to-peer lending, which, besides being a source of easy credit, had also become a popular investment vehicle. The sector has shrunk to less than half its peak size as a result of forced shutdowns.
32. What can we learn about Zeng Jinpeng from the first paragraph?
A. He was in debt because he bought a smart phone app.
B. He liked purchasing on the app Huabei of Alibaba Group.
C. He always spent more than he earned from his salary in the past.
D. He depended on his parents to support him to repay his debt.
33.Which of the following words best describes China’s online consumer finance?
A. Crazy.
B. Hopeless.
C. Controlled.
D. Reasonable.
34.What does the underlined word “frugal” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?
A.Impractical.
B. Hardworking.
C. Avoiding waste.
D. Relying on others.
35.Which of the following can be the best title?
A. Overconsumption---- A Bad Habit
B. China’s Generation Z----Hooked on Credit
C. Chinese Youths In the E-commerce Age
D. Zeng Jinpeng’s Financial Crisis
第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。

选项中有两项为多余选项。

Failure is a word that no one wants to hear. It is human being’s biggest fear，yet it is faced by every human being. Sometimes, people’s fear of it is their biggest barrier to success. 36 Here are some tips which can help you get on the positive side of life.
Say no to giving up. Before starting anything that you think will give you success, promise yourself that you will never give up. 37 But what if you didn’t do that in the start？Then always remember that it is never too late.
38 This is the opportunity that you should not let go of. Suppose you are on a football ground. You strike the ball for 9 times in a row and fail. But at the tenth attempt, you succeed after 9 ‘in a row failures or mistakes’. The tenth attempt proves that you have somehow learnt from your mistakes.
Never think that you’ve got only one plan. The worst thing you can do after failing in some project is thinking that it was the only plan you could ever think of. 39 If a plan A fails, turn to Plan B or Plan C. If you are into achieving something, no one or nothing in this world can stop you.
40 This is the most important thing that you need to live a happy life. Always think positive. Never let yourself down. Positivity is all we need to grow and establish ourselves in this world.
A. Keep a positive attitude.
B. Learn from your mistakes.
C. There is always another plan.
D. Change the failure into victory.
E. In fact, most people strongly deny it.
F. Therefore, you need to learn how to deal with failure.
G. This promise helps make your mind ready for both failure and success.
第三部分语言知识运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

I boarded the train yesterday. The train was empty so I took the best seat at the end of the carriage so I
The woman was wearing clothes that were hand crafted. I don’t think you could ever find the clothes she
like them. Me!
were already in each other’s embrace.
41. A. outdoors B. forward C. sideways D. backward
42. A. squeezed B. ran C. broke D. burst
43. A. unlike B. into C. after D. around
44. A. train B. country C. family D. store
45. A. therefore B. but C. meanwhile D. thus
46. A. defeated B. challenged C. influenced D. struck
47. A. uniform B. blouse C. simplicity D. figure
48. A. locked B. parted C. flashed D. darkened
49. A. casually B. coldly C. happily D. sadly
50. A. eyes B. soul C. background D. face
51. A. argument B. quarrel C. conversation D. joking
52. A. calling for B. standing for C. thanking for D. hoping for
53. A. interview B. communicate C. argue D. work
54. A. family B. country C. community D. life
55. A. concluded B. impressed C. shared D. celebrated
56. A. thought B. Indian C. excuse D. mistake
57. A. idea B. back C. attention D. head
58. A. made sense B. flew by C. left out D. lost sight
59. A. encourage B. respect C. love D. hug
60. A. career B. country C. culture D. city
第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

One important early rail line was the Beijing--Zhangjiakou line, 61 (complete) in 1909. Other rail lines then under development used Western financing and assistance, 62 Zhangjiakou was an important trading post with Russia and the Chinese government felt the line was a high priority, so it decided that construction should be all-Chinese. Hence, Zhan Tianyou 63 (give) this important job. When he
was 12, he was sent by the government to study in the US, 64 he graduated from high school and Yale University. On his return to China, he gained experience 65 (work) on the railroad between Beijing and Shenyang, before being given the 66 (responsible) of building the Beijing--Zhangjiakou line. Through his skill, the railroad was finished two years ahead of schedule.
67 (unfortunate), development of the Chinese rail networks 68 (be) soon stalled by war.
In the 1950s, the government began 69 renewed push to develop the networks, repairing damaged lines, filling in the gaps and lengthening lines still 70 (far) so that most of the major cities would be connected.
第三节（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
根据提示在空白处填入单词的正确形式，每空一词（所填单词必须选自必修五Unit1~3）
71. Teaching young children with special needs is a big __________(挑战).
72. Water can _________(吸收) and give off a lot of heat without big changes in temperature, thus creating
a stable environment.
73. We should not jump to the __________(结论). Let’ investigate first.
74. Her husband is ________(谨慎的), never making a swift decision about anything.
75. Many people enjoy the pleasure and __________(便利) of living in a city centre.
76. Despite his ________(缺少) of experience, he got the job.
77. She was _________(不乐意的)to give me any details.
78. She __________(安排) an appointment for Friday afternoon at four-fifteen.
79. There was always the ____________(可能性) that he might be turned down.
80. My first ____________(印象) of him was favorable.
第四部分写作（满分25分）
假定你是李华，你的学校各社团下周即将招收新的成员。

你在为所在的英语社团设计新的海报，想请外籍教师David帮忙设计和修改。

请你根据提示用英语给David写一封信求助。

要点如下：1.求助事由；
2.约定去外教办公室见面时间；
注意：1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

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__________________________沧州一中高二年级第一次月考
2020.10.12 英语试题答案
语法填空：
61. completed 62. but 63.was given 64.where 65.working
66.responsibility 67.Unfortunately 68.was 69.a 70.farther/further
单词填空：
71. challenge 72. absorb 73. conclusion 74. cautious 75. convenience
76. lack 77. unwilling 78. arranged 79. possibility 80. impression
书面表达：
Dear David,
I’m Li Hua, one of your students. I’m wiring to ask for your help.
To enrich the students’ school life, all the clubs in our school are going to recruit new members next week. As chairman of the English club, I have been preparing to design a new poster for the English club. I’m wondering if you could offer me some valuable advice and help me design the poster. If possible, could you fix a time that is convenient for you when I can come to your office for help.
I would appreciate it if you could take the trouble to do so much for me. Looking forward to your early reply.
Yours，
Li Hua
听力原文
Text 1
M: Hi, Linda. Did you buy anything in the town yesterday?
W: Yes. Look at my beautiful green sweater. And I bought this amazing red leather bag and a lovely blue skirt.
Text 2
W: Hello, M&D Picture, Customer Service Department. This is Jane Fuller. How may I help you?
M: Hi, I'm calling about a camera I bought from your store two weeks ago. For some reason I haven't been able to get it to work properly.
Text 3
M: Are all these books on the list here for me to check out? I need them for my report.
W: No, just some of them. The others are lent out, but I think they will be available in several days. We can call you when they are ready.
Text 4
W: Oh，you finally come back! Why don't you give me your coat? I'll put it in the dryer for you. Lunch is ready.
M: Just a moment. I'll ring Miss Thomas to get tomorrow's meeting ready. Then，let's have lunch.
Text 5
W: Jason, do you know in which month the Olympics in 1964 was held?
M: In August, I guess.
W: No. It was held two months later than that to avoid the summer heat. It's usually very hot in August in Tokyo, you know.
Text 6
M: You've got a German accent. Have you ever lived in Germany?
W: Yes, I spent three years in Munich. My father worked there in a computer company.
M: Really? What were the people there like?
W: They were extremely friendly. ⑥My neighbor was really a nice girl. She always tried to speak with me in simple German, and I could communicate with others little by little.
M: That's really great.
W: Yes. What about you? Have you ever been to Germany?
M: No, I haven't, but I've been to the United States. ⑦I went there on a school exchange.
W: Where did you go?
M: I went to Red Bluff in California.
W: Well, my mother waits for a chance to go sightseeing there.
Text 7
M: (8)Why hasn't the bus come? We have waited for a long time.
W: Look! There's a row of Mobikes in front of the supermarket.
M: Let's go and see how to use it. Let me see, first download an app, and then use the app to scan the QR code to unlock. Now we can ride a bike.
W: Great! No wonder bike sharing is so popular. (9)People can find a bike anywhere at any time.
M: Yes. It is called the last kilometer travel. The price of one trip is very low. It helps people save money. Also it can reduce air pollution.
W: But there're also some disadvantages of bike sharing.
M: Like what?
W: Its management isn't perfect. Even kids can open the lock and ride it.
M: Oh, it's really dangerous! (10)Come on, class will begin.
W: (10)Let's hurry up!
Text 8
W: (13)Thank you for taking some time off from your busy schedule to answer a few questions about your life!
M: It's my pleasure!
W: How many films have you made?
M: That's a hard question. I think I've made more than 50 films.
W: Wow! That's a lot! How many years have you been an actor?
M: (11)I've been an actor since I was ten. In other words, I've been an actor for twenty years.
W: That's impressive. Do you have any future projects?
M: Yes. (12)I'm going to focus on making a few documentaries next year.
W: That sounds great! Will you keep acting in the movies?
M: Well, I'm not sure. Maybe I'll become a director, and maybe I'll just retire. I have always dreamt of traveling around the world.
W: Oh, it's a pity if you retire! We love your films!
M: That's very kind of you. I'm sure I'll make a few more films.
W: That's good to hear. (13)Thank you for the interview!
Text 9
M: What's that website?
W: People send in the names of teenagers who've done something great. Everyone votes, and the teenager with the most votes wins.
M: Who's that boy in the photo?
W: (14)He's a teenager named Charlie Watson. He has his own soccer website. He designed it himself and did all the work. He's only 17, and he already has a million dollars. There's also a boy named Felipe Flores. He climbed the highest mountain in the Andes.
M: So, who are you going to vote for?
W: I'm not sure. (16)There are two I really like.
M: Who are they?
W: (15)One's a girl named Anna Philipova. She's 13 years old. There was a terrible fire in her home, and she walked right into the burning building to rescue her two little brothers. She got them both out alive, but her hand was badly burned.
M: Wow! And who's the other?
W: (16)The other's a 16-year-old boy named Malik Monroe. He gave three million dollars to hospitals and schools in Africa last year.
M: (17)How does he get the money?
W: (17)He organizes big concerts in schools and colleges all over the USA. Then he gives all the money he gets from the concerts to hospitals and schools in Africa.
Text 10
W: Imagine a world with no more wild animals: no elephants, no giraffes or lions. To me, that thought is too terrible for words. Being surrounded by wild animals, (18)feeding them and caring for them, is all that I've wanted to do with my life. And that is exactly what I do now. I care for 500 animals that live on my family's wildlife farm in San Antonio, Texas. I wear many hats for doing many different jobs there every day.
I care for creatures from around the world. I love them all. However, the giraffes occupy a special place in
my heart. Their population in the last 15 years has declined by 80 percent. (19)Buddy and Wasswa are one of just nine sets of twin giraffes born at zoos around the world. After getting some media attention, I launched the Giraffe Conservation Foundation to help protect giraffes living in the wild. (20)I'm so glad to get help from five wildlife researchers that took giraffes up to a higher level. Our farm is open to the public. Visitors can not only learn about the animals, but also get close to them. And the animals are not against that. For them, people are part of their natural environment.。